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4:00 PM ET, May 29, 2023

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New York Times:
New Details in Debt Limit Deal: Where $136 Billion in Cuts Will Come From  —  Two years of spending caps, additional work requirements for food stamps and cuts to I.R.S. funding are among the components in the deal.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  The full legislative text …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
What's in the debt limit bill?  Key provisions in the Biden-McCarthy deal to avert default  —  Republicans and Democrats each won some concessions in the legislation.  —  WASHINGTON — The bipartisan deal struck by Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy extends …
Axios:
Inside Biden's relentless soft-sell on the debt ceiling bill  —  The White House is kicking its outreach to congressional Democrats into overdrive as it tries to sell lawmakers on President Biden's debt ceiling deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. … - After the deal was announced late Saturday …
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Why Spending Cuts Likely Won't Shake the Economy
Discussion: Mother Jones, Semafor and New York Post
Andrea Cavallier / Associated Press:
Graduates boo and turn their chairs away from former U.S Rep. Liz Cheney as she delivers commencement address at liberal Colorado College - despite her blasting Trump's election-denying attorney  — The former U.S. Rep. gave the commencement speech at her alma mater Colorado College, a liberal arts school she graduated from in 1988
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New York Times:
The bidding for Lot 17 started at $23 million.  —  In the packed room at Sotheby's in Manhattan, the price quickly climbed: $32 million, $42 million, $48 million.  Then a new prospective buyer, calling from China, made it a contest between just two people.  —  On the block that evening …
Yuliya Talmazan / NBC News:
‘Nuclear weapons for everyone’ who joins Belarus and Russia, Putin ally promises  —  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's comment comes amid escalating nuclear rhetoric from Vladimir Putin, whose army is floundering in Ukraine.  —  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko …
CBS News:
Russia issues arrest warrant for Sen. Lindsey Graham  —  Moscow — Russia's Interior Ministry on Monday issued an arrest warrant for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham following his comments related to the fighting in Ukraine.  —  In an edited video of his meeting on Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy …
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Data analyst explains why Ron DeSantis is in trouble with voters already  —  CNN's data analyst dived into some polling for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to closely examine why the GOP presidential candidate isn't connecting well with voters.  —  DeSantis spent over a month traveling …
Abdi Latif Dahir / New York Times:
New Anti-Gay Law in Uganda Includes Life in Prison as Penalty  —  President Yoweri Museveni has dismissed widespread criticism and signed the legislation, one of the world's most restrictive anti-gay measures.  —  Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya  —  The president of Uganda signed …
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Lee Ying Shan / CNBC:
Turkey's lira sinks to fresh record low after Erdogan re-election  — The Turkish lira sank to a record low as incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan secured his victory in the 2023 presidential election, extending his rule into its third decade in power.  — Erdogan endorses the unconventional view …
Nancy Armour / USA Today:
What ESPN's Sam Ponder calls ‘fairness’ is plain old bigotry  —  Don't be fooled by the people who screech about “fairness” to cloak their bigotry toward transgender girls and women, the transgender girls and women who have the audacity to want to play sports, in particular.
Discussion: Breitbart, IJR, Fox News and RedState
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Historic gains: Low-income workers scored in the Covid economy  —  A POLITICO analysis shows that pandemic-era policies reversed the trend toward a widening income gap.  The move away from them threatens those gains.  Which way will Biden turn?  —  For the past three years …
Kevin D. Williamson / The Dispatch:
The Burial of the Dead … KYIV—This doesn't feel like a city at war, or a city under martial law.  Not at first, anyway.  —  Kyiv is a city with packed restaurants—reservations are hard to come by—packed bars, packed cafes, busy streets.  Our hotel is bustling, the traffic is substantial …
Reuters:
Turkey's Erdogan prevails in election test of his 20-year rule  —  President Tayyip Erdogan extended his two decades in power in elections on Sunday, winning a mandate to pursue increasingly authoritarian policies which have polarised Turkey and strengthened its position as a regional military power.
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Associated Press:
Voters in Turkey return to polls to decide on opposing presidential visions
 
 
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Amid Omani visit, Iran's messaging points to transactionalism with west
Discussion: Reuters
Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street Mobilizes for a Presidential Election, Reluctantly
NBC News:
A half-century later, a congressman visits the site of his father's fatal helicopter crash in Vietnam
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Biden's student debt plan hangs in balance as major Supreme Court rulings loom
Discussion: Insider
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge postpones showdown over 14th Amendment debt powers
Discussion: The Hill
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
In one suburb, a backlash against homeowners renting out private pools
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Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Experts warn of increased risk of US terror attacks by rightwing ‘lone wolf’ actors
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox News poll finds 56% doubt Trump's ‘mental soundness’ to be president
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Slate
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Texas Republicans pass voting bills targeting large Democratic county
Discussion: KRDO
 

 
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New York Times:
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